Major Newspapers
Press Virtually Silent as Appeals Court Blocks Obamacare's Contracepti
November 11th, 2013 2:54 PM
The press has been obsessed with the fate of Obamacare's contraception mandate ever since religious, corporate, and other litigants began challenging it in the courts.
So what explains the fact that a search on "Korte" at the Associated Press's national site and at the New York Times return nothing and nothing relevant, respectively? Or that there are only nine stories at Google Newsin a…
NYT Puts Michael Shear's Pathetic Coverage of Obama's 'You Can Keep Yo
November 9th, 2013 2:51 PM
In a Thursday evening writeup (HT Twitchy) which appeared on Page A14 in its Friday morning print edition, Michael D. Shear at the New York Times reported on President Barack Obama's attempt to clean up the four-year mess he made (from June 6, 2009 through September 26, 2013) in over three dozen statements and published items. The mess was Obama's guarantee — not a promise, a guarantee — that "…
The New York Times' Latest Wrongness for the Leftist Cause – Bad Job
November 7th, 2013 9:11 AM
The New York Times has been notoriously biased and wrong for a long, long time. On things large and small. The Old Shady Lady is at least consistent - if they want to advance Leftism, no facts shall impede them.
Their Ron Nixon is part of a century-plus-old pathetic tradition.
USAT: Obama 'Tweaking' His 'You Can Keep Your Plan' Guarantee, 'Added
November 5th, 2013 11:00 AM
This morning, in an apparent rush to get a jump on the rest of the excuse-making establishment press, Aamer Madhani at USA Today claimed that President Barack Obama's shameless, lame Monday night attempt to explain away his serial guarantee, namely that "If you like your health insurance plan, you can keep your health insurance plan, period" — made roughly two dozen times in 2009 and 2010, and…
NYT Trumpets How 'Millions Are Eligible for Free (Obamacare) Policies
November 4th, 2013 2:08 PM
On Sunday, the editorialists at the New York Times claimed that President Barack Obama merely "misspoke" when he dishonestly promised the American people that "If you like your plan, you can keep your plan" to get Obamacare passed.
Sunday evening for Monday's print edition, reporters Reed Abelson and Katie Thomas carried heavy buckets of water on behalf of Obama and his administration. The…
Venezuela Seizes U.S. Firm's Oil Rigs; AP Story Headlines Mislead
November 4th, 2013 10:41 AM
The Venezuelan government of Nicolas Maduro has put the country back into the expropriration business, seizing two oil rigs owned by Houston-based Superior Energy Services.
Two different Friday headlines at Associated Press stories about the seizures, one at the AP's national site and the other at the Washington Post, appeared designed more to mislead than to inform.
Incomplete WSJ Report Notes That 'Policy Advisers' Were Overruled by
November 3rd, 2013 4:28 PM
On Saturday morning, three Wall Street Journal reporters told readers that as President Obama was promoting Obamacare, there was internal debate between "policy advisers" and "political aides" as to whether the President's obviously unqualified and unconditional "If you like your plan, you can keep your plan" statement, made roughly 20 times between his inauguration and the law's March 2010…
New York Times: Obama 'Misspoke' About Keeping Healthcare Plans
November 3rd, 2013 6:28 AM
MISSPEAK 1: to speak (as a word) incorrectly 2: to express oneself imperfectly or incorrectly [e.g., claims now that he misspoke himself]
In an editorial of today, the New York Times couldn't bring itself to say the simple truth: that President Obama lied when he repeatedly assured Americans that, under Obamacare, if they liked their healthcare insurance policies they would be able to keep…
Video: Tennessee State Senator Gives Kathleen Sebelius 'Web Sites for
November 2nd, 2013 11:53 AM
This is really delicious.
The Memphis Daily News reported Friday that Health and Human Services secretary Kathleen Sebelius was in Memphis to discuss ObamaCare when out of the crowd came Tennessee state senator Brian Kelsey (R) to hand her a copy of "Web Sites for Dummies."
Press Ignoring CNN's Report of WH Pressure on Health Insurance Industr
October 31st, 2013 11:50 AM
Tuesday evening (noted by Noel Sheppard at NewsBusters early Wednesday morning), CNN's Drew Griffin reported on Anderson Cooper's show that there is a "behind the scenes attempt by the White House to at least keep insurers from publicly criticizing what is happening under this Affordable Care Act rollout."
Such a report occurring during a Republican or conservative administration would spread…
WaPo's Kessler Gives Obama's 'You Can Keep Your Plan' Promise 'Four Pi
October 30th, 2013 3:39 PM
43 months after the passage of the Affordable Care Act, another national establishment press outlet has called President Barack Obama's serially made promise that "If you like your health care plan, you can keep your health plan" a lie. Specifically, Washington Post designated fact-checker Glenn Kessler has given it "four Pinocchios," the lowest possible rating on his scale reserved for "…
Federal Solar Auction Gets No Bidders; AP (Just a Local Story) and Pol
October 27th, 2013 6:55 PM
Green energy is supposedly the future. Why, solar energy will break out and become a major energy source any year now, or any decade now. Or maybe never. It has been the subject of national attention ever since President Obama made it a cornerstone of his 2008 presidential campaign. Of course, what Obama claims is in energy policy has worked out to be more a of a growth-constraining, government…
HealthCare.gov’s Mounting Costs, Part 2: Don't Forget HHS's Internal
October 27th, 2013 5:17 PM
The left has been ridiculing supposedly wildly overstated estimates of the costs of building the calamitous HealthCare.gov website, the fact is that the costs involved are certainly far higher than the figures most commonly cited: "over 500 million" at Digital Trends, "over $400 million" at the New York Times. The Washington Post's Glenn Kessler is claiming that it's really only $170 milion to…
HealthCare.gov's Mounting Costs, Part 1: Press Ignoring Former Admin M
October 27th, 2013 3:40 PM
The left has been ridiculing supposedly wildly overstated estimates of the costs of building the calamitous HealthCare.gov website.
Based on a look at one contractor, CGI, which he must have assumed was the general contractor (i.e., the lead entity through which amounts paid to subcontracting firms would be funneled), Andrew Couts at Digital Trends originally estimated a total cost of $634…